1930: Promising her guests “privacy, quiet and sunshine,” Isabella Greenway opens the Arizona Inn.
1933: The building and plant of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson are totally destroyed by fire. The Star continues to publish at the Tucson Citizen plant.
1940: MGM begins on film set; Double U Ranch selected as site for Billy the Kid picture.
1967: A U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom jet crashes into a Food Giant grocery store, near the intersection of 29th Street and Alvernon Way, killing four.
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